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I am Gonna Smack You With My Words!

You're a prosecutor and your job is to annihilate those criminals (I mean, lock 'em up)! Use your rhetoric (or at least your knowledge about the English language) and try to survive as long as you can!

WARNING: To verify the existence of the words I've used the /usr/share/dict/words file, present on Unix systems, alongside with some preprocessing. If it happens that some word you used is not recognized (or one that shouldn't be was recognized), tell me about it in the comments session! Thank you for your help!

I also apologize for the repetitive music, I had completely forgotten that I couldn't use external assets for entering the Compo, so I improvised a sample. I'm just a programmer, so design and music are not my strong points! :(

Comments

I get it, I myself am brazilian. If you want to, you can get the source code and replace the list of words for a french one! :)
Here a list of different languages for the wordlist package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/wordlist

Cool typing game! I always struggle with these games that make me think up words on the fly. =)

The sound got the job done. The impact sounds were good, but the music was pretty repetitive.

I liked how the word display highlighted correct vs. incorrect words (though I found a few it doesn't know). Letting players skip a hard letter was nice, too. And the character art was nice. I liked the way the protagonist flapped his jaw when he was speaking the attacks.

Fun game! My high score was 153. It was a little tricky since some words weren't in the dictionary and it got really challenging a couple levels in, but its a neat idea that could be expanded upon to make a more substantial game.

Nice little game! I play word games a lot. The difficulty was kinda slow in my opinion - I'd have liked it to ramp up a bit more quickly. Maybe by making enemies quicker and more threatening and implementing a lives system, it would have helped keep things more interesting. I found the letter limit only restricting for the first two levels or so, then it was a non-issue. It was kinda repetitive until I realised that there were special bonuses for getting words of a certain length - I LOVED that aspect of it. Just for readability, I may have flipped the scene so that the words you were saying would be spelt forwards and not backwards. I didn't really get the theming behind the game, but I guess it worked - maybe a librarian or school kid or something to do with a dictionary would have made more sense.

"Kill ! Diarrhea ! Blood ! Delete ! Exterminate ! Xylophone !" Had a lot of fun with your game. Compared to other letter games, picking your own word and seeing immediately if your word is spelled correctly make this game very smooth and fun to play.

Mini Submission FAQ

TEAMS: Teams entering the Jam should pick a single representative to submit your game, or create a team specific account you can share. We currently do not support Team Voting, but sharing an account and together playing and rating games is acceptable.

CAN I ENTER BOTH EVENTS?: You should pick 1 event, whichever you think it’ll do better in. If the idea is strong, and everything plays well enough, you can go Compo. If you’re a perfectionist, and would prefer people to play a more polished game, do the Jam. Historically, more games are entered in the Compo, but with more people and more time, Jam games have the potential to be better (that doesn’t mean they are). Many solo participants do enter the Jam.

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